Descendants of Bantu people of East Africa, Siddi ancestors were largely brought to India as slaves by Arabs as early as the 7th Century, followed by the Portuguese and the British later on.

Growing up around open drains and swarms of flies in the remote village, he and other members of the local Siddi community have been abused for their distinctive dark features and curly hair.

Last year, Shantaram Siddi became the first from the community to be nominated as a member of state legislative council in the southern state of Karnataka. The Siddis are often seen as outsiders ...

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Located in Haliyal taluk, Dandeli is close to Siddi villages that dot the area. Around 40,000 Siddis live in the villages in Uttara Kannada district. The thought process was quite simple.

BENGALURU: Seven out of eight athletes from the Siddi tribal community, who are undergoing training at a government residential school in Vidyanagar, Bengaluru, won medals at the Jayan Boxing ...

Hyderabad: Nine people were rescued after a huge fire broke out in a multi-storey building in the Afzal Gunj area in ...

Juan Siddi, born in Frankfurt to a Spanish mother, studied flamenco in both Germany and Spain. He has been based in New Mexico since 2007; his troupe, having its New York début at the Joyce ...

A young boy from the Siddi tribal community from Uttara Kannada district has been selected to play for the pro-Kabaddi team, Bengal Warriors. Sushil Motesh Kambrekar from Gadge village near ...

Ahmedabad: The Gujarat State Waqf Board has initiated an investigation into the alleged "unauthorised occupation of land" belonging to the Siddi Bashir Mosque Waqf. According to official documents ...

Actor Prashanth Siddi bought a clock for his home with his first salary. “All our life, we asked our neighbours for the time as we could not even afford a square meal,” he remembers ...